Mike
I was going to post a reply to your single handed erection piece,but that section will now only allow administrators to post replies. Hence the addition to the title.
I have erected and broke up single handed.
From last weeks experience of breaking up I wouldn't want to try single handed erection in any sort of wind.
For me raising the door end isn't the problem as such.
You can lift the door then a combination of friction from the roof and you providing some support with your right hand on the left hand bat wing while simultaneously lifting the left hand side bed side wall.
Once you have clipped that in going to the other side and clipping that bat wing in gives you a structure that just about self supports. To continue in the same vane of innuendo and euphemism a "semi".
The problem is more that I can't remember a definite order for the process.
So coming to do the above I find one of the bed ends is still clipped down and of course it's clipped on the far side. So your either collapsing everything or hoping things will hold for a split second while you unclip.
Though I got a helping hand with the Dandy when I went to the Revival at Goodwood I think I put the awning up on my own.
Thankfully it's the smaller type of awning but even they can be fun I think I must just have had a moment of brute force and ignorance.
On the subject of brute force and ignorance: While still well supplied in the ignorance department I'm not exactly over able in the brute force dept. The result of having my stomach opened up twice in the last 3 years mean I don't stretch too well and lifting is curtailed. So it's not a superhuman effort if I can do it I'm sure most can.
To be honest though single handed is a right pain and you have no flexibility if things go wrong. I would have been stuck last week packing up every time I went for the trailer cover, the roof unfolded I needed a second pair of hands just to hold it down. It's much easier to mug even a complete stranger, the cost of the bottle opened or the pint bought in thanks really is small beer in this case.
I presume you will move this to the replies to your post.
I was going to post a reply to your single handed erection piece,but that section will now only allow administrators to post replies. Hence the addition to the title.
I have erected and broke up single handed.
From last weeks experience of breaking up I wouldn't want to try single handed erection in any sort of wind.
For me raising the door end isn't the problem as such.
You can lift the door then a combination of friction from the roof and you providing some support with your right hand on the left hand bat wing while simultaneously lifting the left hand side bed side wall.
Once you have clipped that in going to the other side and clipping that bat wing in gives you a structure that just about self supports. To continue in the same vane of innuendo and euphemism a "semi".
The problem is more that I can't remember a definite order for the process.
So coming to do the above I find one of the bed ends is still clipped down and of course it's clipped on the far side. So your either collapsing everything or hoping things will hold for a split second while you unclip.
Though I got a helping hand with the Dandy when I went to the Revival at Goodwood I think I put the awning up on my own.
Thankfully it's the smaller type of awning but even they can be fun I think I must just have had a moment of brute force and ignorance.
On the subject of brute force and ignorance: While still well supplied in the ignorance department I'm not exactly over able in the brute force dept. The result of having my stomach opened up twice in the last 3 years mean I don't stretch too well and lifting is curtailed. So it's not a superhuman effort if I can do it I'm sure most can.
To be honest though single handed is a right pain and you have no flexibility if things go wrong. I would have been stuck last week packing up every time I went for the trailer cover, the roof unfolded I needed a second pair of hands just to hold it down. It's much easier to mug even a complete stranger, the cost of the bottle opened or the pint bought in thanks really is small beer in this case.
I presume you will move this to the replies to your post.